I remember seeing a copyright notice 1991 on some cartoons, but looking at the Totally Minnie special from 1988 (the one that debuted Russi Taylor as the voice of Minnie Mouse), the clips used were colorized. Does anybody have any info on that?

Well, I heard that Disney colorized some of the black-and-white shorts in the 1980s while they were in talks with CBS with running Disney cartoons on Saturday mornings (similar to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show), but those plans fell through.

They then decided to colorize the Mickeys (and a few Silly Symphonies) in 1991 for airings on The Disney Channel, but with a different, more lighter kind of color scheme. Compare the clips from Building a Building on Totally Minnie and then a 1991 colorized print and see how different they look.

I do remember seeing the first colorized version of "Gulliver Mickey" from the 1988 Mickey's Magical World VHS, but I wonder what they used to colorize the black and whites before the use of computers in the 90's?

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I'm not just a fan of classic golden age animation, I'm also a fan of video games, anime, and modern animation (both 2D and CGI animation).

An interesting tidbit: when Disney Channel Asia ran Good Morning Mickey and Donald Duck Presents around 2008-2010, they used newly prepared international syndication masters that replaced most of the B&W Mickeys with the 1991 computer colorized ones (which obviously didn't exist in the early 80s ). There were a few shorts that remained B&W which presumably didn't have corresponding computer colorized versions (I recall seeing Steamboat Willie, Plane Crazy, Mickey in Arabia and Pioneer Days shown in B&W).

There was a magazine that came out in the late 1980s called "Cartoon Quarterly," which IIRC lasted for only one issue. In that issue was a column by Leonard Maltin where he lamented the redrawn colorized Popeye cartoons which had recently appeared on TV. He suggested their success would likely inspire other studios to follow suit (this was years after the Betty Boop and Porky Pig cartoons had been redrawn in the early 1970s), and mentioned that redrawn clips from Disney cartoons had appeared in some music videos, presumably shown on DTV. I never saw anything like that, but if Leonard Maltin said it, he usually knows what he's talking about.

I do remember seeing the first colorized version of "Gulliver Mickey" from the 1988 Mickey's Magical World VHS, but I wonder what they used to colorize the black and whites before the use of computers in the 90's?

Digital colorization existed back in the 1980s. This is how Ted Turner pulled that infamous move on colorizing the old black-and-white movies and such his company owned (they also colorized the first season of "Gilligan's Island.") They weren't BAD colorizations, (they actually looked pretty well-done), but the public was still outraged because they preferred them in black-and-white.Turner's digital colorization duties were handled by CST Entertainment, the same company that colorized many black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoons in the early 1990s.

(*) = can be viewed on youtube, currently. In mixed quality some are even in Italian or German Dub.

This list was originally created by David Gerstein on the old GAC, I added those chartoons not originally listed by David. So this now give us 55 cartoons. I think you can find at least ca 30 on youtube. So I'm not sure if this list is still 100% acurrate.

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